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flyleaf
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fly·leaf  (fllf)
n.
A blank or specially printed leaf at the beginning or end of a book.

flyleaf [ˈflaɪˌliːf]
n pl -leaves
(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) the inner leaf of the endpaper of a book, pasted to the first leaf
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Noun1.flyleaf - a blank leaf in the front or back of a book
folio, leaf - a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
Translations
flyleaf [ˈflaɪliːf] N (flyleaves (pl)) → guarda f
flyleaf [ˈflaɪliːf] npage f de garde
fly-on-the-wall documentary ndocumentaire m pris sur le vif
see also fly
flyleaf [ˈflaɪˌliːf] n (-leaves (pl)) → risguardo
flyleaf [ˈflaɪˌliːf] n (-leaves (pl)) → risguardo


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Instead, there are hundreds of strips, scraps, paste-downs, and flyleaves to be found, matched, deciphered, and transcribed.
Although economic exigencies may have required filling inside covers, flyleaves, and blank half- or quarter-page spaces with reviewers' comments and advertisements, the reader can hardly be expected to focus on the main content of the volumes while being distracted by material for which there is little apparent rationale.
Or: Notes from Beyond the Veil," and progress through the full-scale examination in "On the Lower Frequencies" of what The Souls of Black Folk might have meant to her maternal grandfather: A contemporary of Du Bois, Papa annotated his copy and probably composed the poem, "From Behind the Veil," that Pemberton finds written on the back flyleaves.
 
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